When I first started on this game I thought it would be a simple matter of taking the ‘golf’ code and applying new photos, and a few changes to images.

Footy is a very different game to Golf in the real world, and this translated into the iPhone world as well, even with these game. What was originally going to be a simple task took on new life as the scoring, animation, game play, and general behaviour of the game changed to suit football as a game whilst still maintaining the original concept.

One simple example of this is the shape of the ball. A golf ball is spherical, and as a result it’s easy to wrap a texture around it to get a nice animation of the ball. No such luck with a football. I had to find a way to respect the shape of the ball, move it around the screen, and still use it effectively.